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          By Mark Simpson
          BBC Ireland correspondent


          Catherine McCartney (right) is a history and politics teacher

          Inside the McCartney family house there are two constant noises - the dull ring of the telephone and the background chatter of a 24-hour news channel.

          For the McCartney sisters, it all feels unreal.

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          6. What is even more surreal is when their pictures appear on the TV, on the hour every hour.

          "Sometimes I wonder to myself 'is this all really happening?'," says Claire, the youngest of the five sisters.

          But this is not a dream, it is a recurring nightmare.

          The McCartney sisters have lost two brothers in the space of four years. First Gerard aged 28, then Robert, 33.

          McCartney, born in , was a Roman Catholic and lived in the predominantly nationalist Short Strand area of east Belfast, and was said by his family to have.

          Gerard took his own life after a period of depression. Robert was stabbed and kicked to death in the centre of Belfast. The gang which killed him included at least three members of the IRA.

          No ordinary family

          He died only yards away from the Hilton Hotel where he and his fiancee Bridgee